Anonymous Hits U.K. ISP For Pirate Bay Censorship

Anonymous has hit one of the main U.K. ISPs, Virgin Media, after it became the first ISP in the country to react to a court-ordered censorship of The Pirate Bay, singled out by the legal system for a role in pirating copyright-protected content. The denial-of-service attack successfully took down the company's website for about an hour and Anonymous claimed responsibility in a tweet that ended with the hashtag "OpTPB," a clear indication it was intended as retaliation for Virgin's censorship. But The Pirate Bay itself has reacted angrily to the DDoS attack, noting that this itself amounts to censoring the internet and instead urged supporters to "join or start a pirate party, teach your friends the art of BitTorrent, set up a proxy, write [to] your political representatives, develop a new p2p protocol" or other acts to promote its version of a free Net.